BIOGRAPHY: William PRICE, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, pages 601-602.

  WILLIAM PRICE, Strodes Mills, Mifflin county, Pa., was born July 14, 1821, in 
Centre county, Pa., near Potters Mills, son of Jacob and Susanna (Smith) Price.  
Jacob Price was a native and a citizen of Centre county,  was educated there in 
the common schools, and there learned the trade of millwright, which he carried 
on in central Pennsylvania, principally in Centre, Mifflin and Juniata counties.  
He had much energy and perseverance, and was respected as a reliable business 
man.  The children of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Price are:  three who died young, 
Jacob, Joshua and Benjamin;  Joseph, married Sarah Cochran, has two children;  
William;  John, married Isabelle Tippery, has three children;  Mary Ann (Mrs. 
John Spiece), of Lewistown, Pa.;  Charles, married Louisa Printz, of Lewistown;  
Samuel, went to California, and has never been heard from;  James, married in 
Illinois, resides in Georgia, has two children, Paul and McClellan;  and Sarah 
Jane, residing at Lewistown.  Joseph, John and James all served in the United 
States army during the war of the Rebellion;  James was in the Logan Guards, the 
other two brothers both served three years or more.  Jacob Price and his wife 
both passed their latter years in Granville township, Mifflin county, on the old 
Blymer farm.  Both were valued members of the Lutheran church.  Mrs. Price was 
of a kindly nature, and frequent in her deeds of charity towards the needy.  Mr. 
Price died August 20, 1847, aged about fifty-six years;  his wife survived him 
until April, 1884, dying at the age of eighty-three.
  The removal of the family to Mifflin county took place in 1830, when William 
Price was a boy of nine.  He became and continued to be for some years a pupil 
in the Mifflin county common schools.  At the age of twenty he began an 
apprenticeship of three years with Martin Landis, a plasterer of Lewistown;  
that term over, he worked at the trade for one year as a journeyman.  He was 
then for two years employed at farm labor in Granville township.  In 1847 he 
began farming on his own account, having rented the Joseph Milliken farm, near 
Lewistown.  Five years later, he removed to Gen. James Burns' farm, which he 
cultivated for twenty-seven years.  His agricultural work was very successful 
and profitable, and in 1879, he bought the homestead in Oliver township, which 
comprises 160 acres.  Here Mr. Price has made extensive and judicious 
improvements.  He has very much enlarged the barn, erected a modern and 
convenient house, renewed the fences, and made other additions to the 
productiveness and fine appearance of the place.  His own diligence, good 
judgment and perseverance have been the factors of his financial success.  He is 
always interested in the advancement of the township and community, willingly 
contributing towards improvements.  His politics are those of the Republican 
party;  he has served in various township offices.
  William Price was married November 5, 1846, to Barbara Elizabeth, daughter of 
Jonathan and Catherine (Yeigh) Riddle, of Juniata county.  The children of this 
marriage are:  Susanna Martha (Mrs. Frank Ammon), of Oliver township, has 
children, William, Frank, Morris and Mary Elizabeth;  and Oriana (Mrs. Samuel 
Harvey Sweigart).  Mrs. Price is a faithful member of the Episcopalian church of 
Lewistown.  Her father, Jonathan Riddle, was of English lineage;  her mother 
belonged to a German family.  She died when Mrs. Price was very young, and the 
father died in Ohio, aged about fifty years.  Their children are:  William, 
married Mary Roland, has one child living;  Samuel, married Elizabeth Wilson, 
had two children, served in the army during the whole Civil war, was wounded, 
and died after returning to his home;  and John, killed in his childhood by an 
accident on the railroad.